Roomful of Blues
Backseat Blues
The Comeback
There Goes the Neighborhood, like much of Roomful s oeuvre, is a fairly standard set of blues offerings with more than a hint of rock, dripping with horns and studded with blistering guitar and piano solos. There s an a.
more »ppropriate mix of mid-tempo tunes (Backseat Blues, Blue, Blue World, the title track), up-tempo rockers (Just Like Dynamite, She s Mine), and slower, moodier pieces (Lost Mind, I Smell Trouble, The Comeback), though all the material is focused on light-heartedness and entertainment. If there s not much innovation here, that s not exactly a problem; Roomful hums along like a well-oiled machine, every part in place and never missing a beat. Genevieve Williams